Scholtz, Leopold(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)

The purpose of this article is a critique of the strategic approach to the so-called Battle of Cuito
Cuanavale by the leadership of the South African Defence Force (SADF). The article starts with an
analysis of South ...

Boshoff, Willem(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)

The final phase of the history of Operation Savannah, the 1975–1976 South African military involvement
in Angola dawned when remains of three of the four South African soldiers who were left in Angola,
were repatriated ...

Wessels, André(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)

The South African (SA) Army’s history can be traced back to 1912, when South Africa’s first defence
force was established. In this article a review is provided of the development and deployment of South
Africa’s land ...

Kaden, Robert(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)

This article employs the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)’s 1980s prison camp, Quatro, as a case
study to broadly explore the political jockeying over the memory of anti-apartheid prison camps (as
sites of human rights ...

Scholtz, Leopold(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2017)

The Battle of the Lomba, which was fought on 3 October 1987, was
the final contest between the South African Defence Force (SADF)
and Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA)
during the first phase of ...

Wessels, Andre(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2017)

Half a century ago, in 1966, the so-called “Border War” broke out in
what was then called South-West Africa (SWA) – known as Namibia
after gaining independence in 1990. It was the most comprehensive,
costly and traumatic ...

Wessels, Andre(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)

The South African (SA) Army’s history can be traced back to 1912, when South Africa’s first defence
force was established. In this article a review is provided of the development and deployment of South
Africa’s land ...

Kaden, Robert(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012-06)

This article employs the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)’s 1980s prison camp, Quatro, as a case
study to broadly explore the political jockeying over the memory of anti-apartheid prison camps (as
sites of human rights ...

Boshoff, Willem(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)

The final phase of the history of Operation Savannah, the 1975–1976 South African military involvement
in Angola dawned when remains of three of the four South African soldiers who were left in Angola,
were repatriated ...

Scholtz, Leopold(Faculty of Humanities, University ot the Free State, 2012)

The purpose of this article is a critique of the strategic approach to the so-called Battle of Cuito
Cuanavale by the leadership of the South African Defence Force (SADF). The article starts with an
analysis of South ...